Category: Digital Mentor Texts
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With Literacy and Learning for All (NWP Midwest)
With Literacy and Learning for All As students move from novice to expert in various fields of study, they must become familiar with specialized vocabulary, patterns of thinking, and specific uses of language. More than just integrating reading and writing strategies across the curriculum, as effective teachers we must invite students from diverse backgrounds to…
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Free Webinar on 1/23/18: Exploring the Craft of Digital Writing, Grades 2–8
Exploring the Craft of Digital Writing, Grades 2–8 A Complimentary Webinar with Dr. Troy Hicks and the Center for the Collaborative Classroom. Join us for an hour of inspiration and learning with Dr. Troy Hicks as he leads us in an exploration of the craft of digital writing. More and more, our students encounter a…
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Exploring the Design of a Digital Writing Assignment
During the month of May, my friend and Chippewa River Writing Project colleague Beth Gates has been working with her 11th grade students on a digital writing assignment. Many years ago, she began teaching a digital essay based on an idea from Jim Burke and shared on the English Companion Ning. I featured Beth’s work…
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Fandom Mashup with Mozilla’s Popcorn
For anyone that has read this blog, seen my guest post on the Heinemann website, or heard me speak in the past few months, you know that I am becoming more and more intrigued with Mozilla’s Popcorn as a digital writing tool. Last week, my students in ENG 201 started playing around with Popcorn as…
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Keynote from Reinventing the Classroom 2014 Virtual Conference
My thanks to Steve Hargadon for an invitation to speak during the Reinventing the Classroom virtual conference last week. The archive of my webinar is available on YouTube. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
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Crafting Digital Writing
So pleased to announce that Crafting Digital Writing: Composing Texts Across Media and Genres was officially released today by Heinemann. Here is the text from the back cover: “We have an opportunity to help this generation define itself on its own terms. The question is no longer whether or not we should use technology to teach writing;…
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Digital Mentor Text #6: Feminist Frequency
One last post here on digital mentor texts for the week, with some time to read and reflect planned for the weekend. I have to admit, my original plan to end the week was an “oldie, but goodie” (we can we consider 2007 “old,” at least in YouTube terms, right?): The Machine is Us/ing Us by Michael…
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Digital Mentor Text #5: “Changing Education Paradigms”
As we continue to look at professionally produced videos as digital mentor texts, the fifth video genre that I want to explore is what I would, for lack of better term, call “infotainment with a creative twist.” I mean this less in the sense of “soft journalism,” as described in this Wikipedia entry, and more…
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Digital Mentor Text #4: “Size Matters Not”
Here we are, midweek, in our series on mentor texts in the digital writing workshop, and I’m feeling just a bit left out in the sense that I’ve chosen to focus on professional mentor texts in that I am not commenting on student work like Bill, Katie, Kevin, Tony and Franki are. The thinking on these topics so far…
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Digital Mentor Text #3: “The Power of Words”
My third contribution to the digital mentor text series centers on the idea of creating a short, live action film. As I mentioned in my post last week, and Franki reiterated, so many times in video production we give students the camera and simply hope that something good comes from it. As (digital) writers, we…